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Planting trees can be fun

Metro's Grant Coordinator Mary Rose Navarro and her four-year-old daughter Elena - to plant 170 trees along the I-205 Multi-Use Path last month.
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Contributing to Earth Day Network's A Billion Acts of Green, Oregon State Attorney General John Kroger, right, joined Friends of Trees, the Oregon Department of Transportation, and nearly 100 community volunteers - including Metro's Grant Coordinator Mary Rose Navarro and her four-year-old daughter Elena - to plant 170 trees along the I-205 Multi-Use Path last month.

The spring event concludes the second season of a three-year community effort to green the 16.5-mile path, used by cyclists and pedestrians for recreation and commuting. To date, voulnteers and Friends of Trees staff has planted nearly 4,000 trees and shrubs at various locations along the path.

A $410,000 Metro Nature in Neighborhoods capital grant funds the I-205 Multi-Use Path greening project. The Portland Trail Blazers, the Portland Timbers, East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, Spirit Mountain Community Fund, J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co., and many area businesses also contributed to the project. Cantel Sweeping sponsored the April planting.

To learn more about the Earth Day Network's A Billion Acts of Green, or to register your own earth-friendly act, visit their website: act.earthday.org.

To volunteer for Friends of Trees' fall planting call 503-282-8846.

To view an album of the planting, visit www.facebook.com/midcountymemo.
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